Honey bees use social information in waggle dances more fully when foraging errors are more costly

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 125-131

  Wray, Margaret K ^a   Klein, Barrett A ^b   Seeley, Thomas D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; communication; dance language; reactivation; social information; waggle dance

Indexed keywords

FAMILIARITY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; RESOURCE USE; SIGNALING; SOCIAL INSECT; TRAINING;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 84555204644     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr165     Document Type: Article

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